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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL S. SARGEANT, OF "NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.,

COMBINED BUCKLE AND sw|vE|..j

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 291,407, dated January 1, 1884.

Application filed October 31, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit knownthat I, SAMUEL S. SAEGEANT, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Combined Buckle and Swivel for Bridles; and I do hereby declare that the following' is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of the combined buckle and swivel constructed with my improvements; Eig. 2, a side view of `the same; Fig. 8, a central vertical section of the saine as applied to a bridle; Fig. 4, a front view of a modified form of the buckle and swivel; Fig. 5, a side view of the same; and Fig. 6 is a central vertical section of the same applied to a bridle. y

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the gures.

The buckle proper, A, has an upper bar, u, middle pin-bar, b, with pin c thereon, and a lower bar, cl. In addition to these bars, I add a swivel-hanf, between the pin-bar and lower bar, on which the swivel B is hung. This swivel-bar is of peculiar construction, substantially as shown. It has a downward-curved bend, g, in the middle, preferably equal to about a semicircle. y On this downward curve the eye 7L of the swivel is suspended, and its form allows the swivel to swing outward or inward, backward or forward, in any direction, with perfect freedom, adapting it to all the motions of the animal.f As a special point of improvement in "the construction of this swivel-bar, I preferably form little projections i 13 at the extremities of the 'curve on the upper side of the bar, to prevent the eye of the swivel from moving laterally out of the curve. Instead of these projections, the curving might continue upward-and form a complete eye.

With the construction of the buckle and swivel as above set forth, the throat-latch C, Eig. 3, of the bridle issecured to the pin-bar b, as shown,'and in buckling, the -billet D of the bridle crown-piece is passed under the up-` per part, a, of the buckle, over the pin-bar b,r

taking the pin c in one of the buckle-holes thereof, and then is passed under the lower bar, d, of the buckle, thereby dispensing with and saving a separate buckle on the throatlatch and leather loops on the same or another strap.'

In Figs. 4, 5, and 6 I have shown a modification of the construction. In this modication I dispense with the lower bar of the buckle, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, and instead I use the swvel-barf for a lower bar, and for nearly the same height as the frame of the buckle. In this case the crown strap or billet tucks under this swivel-bar, as shown in Fig. 6. This modification I prefer to use for adjusting up and down on the crown-billet D, as shown in the last-named figure, the pin c entering any one of the buckle-holes of the billet to hold the buckle in place; and I make the throat-latch C, as usual, with buckles at bothends, so that the lower end of said billet, projecting beyond the swivel-buckle, buckles int-o the adjacent throatlatch buckle in the ordinary way. l,With this construction of the swivel-buckle, also, the throat-latch may be secured to the pin-bar b, but for that arrangement I prefer the construction first described.'

WVith all these constructions and arrangements, however, the vswivel B has the same freedom of motion in all directions, as above set forth.

Swivels have before been suspended by their pivots in notched bearings, but no capability of swiveling in all directions is given thereby, as is the case with a swivel-eye suspended on a downwardly-curved bar.

What I claim as my invention is- VThe combined buckle and swivel, constructed substantially as herein specified, the buckle being provided with a cross-bar, f, hav

ing a downwardlycurved part, g, and the swivel being provided with an eye, h, hung on the said curved part of the cross-bar, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL S. 'SARGEANR -that purpose raise it to the same plane or 

